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Got this running on my mac, it's early days but looks promising 
Kinect on Mac :-)
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Nice hand gestures would be pretty cool, swipe left/right in iphoto etc.
hand gestures would be pretty cool, swipe left/right in iphoto etc.
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Is that how kinect sees things? thats pretty cool
Soldato
He's gonna need a bigger screen!
Nah, it's and OpenGL view so you just alpha channel it and so you can see through to the windows behind
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Nah, it's and OpenGL view so you just alpha channel it and so you can see through to the windows behind
He was talking about needing it for the dock!
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That's awesome. I couldn't care less about any of the Kinect games, but the actual device holds a ton of potential when used in other ways.
Soldato
Please create the jedi trick where you can open doors by flapping your hand.
It's just Mac OS X Snow Leopard with the Xcode suite installed along with the relevant drivers for Kinect (see website below):
http://openkinect.org/wiki/Getting_Started#OS_X
I recommend using HomeBrew seemed the easiest and best method. And in regard to having a large Dock, it's just bad habit i tend to chuck everything on there for some reason!
http://openkinect.org/wiki/Getting_Started#OS_X
I recommend using HomeBrew seemed the easiest and best method. And in regard to having a large Dock, it's just bad habit i tend to chuck everything on there for some reason!
Not really got anything planned to be honest however it has a huge amount of potential for the future, so really just going to keep up with development and see were it goes.
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That is extremely cool
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Very impressed. Been following the kinect hacks online but its nice to see it appearing on the mac now. Moving stuff on OSX just seems so much cooler than on windows...then again most stuff does.
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It sees the world with a heat sensor?
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Oh man, it would be rather cool to control some synths in Logic using the kinect... Could do some Therimin type sounds pretty easily... How much coding would be needed to do something like this?
Lol @ Musical Mooning
It's possible. A simple implementation could use optic flow analysis to see the shifts in the scene. So if you shift you hands it will appear - up/down=volume and left/right=pitch for example. Violently waving your hand (as you do in kinect) would allow the system to sense a high speed changing area. As the arm is a length.. it can then determine a joint from that... (hence you could get two hands working).
The setup that the kinect gets you todo is probably just that - looking for the changes in the movements so it can build up a skeleton based off the flow analysis. Once it knows your relative bone sizes then it could make it easier to be more selective of the movements.
More complex analysis of skeletal position (I believe the Xbox does this step) is probably in the works by some cunning linux boffins.. queue air finger pianos..
It's possible. A simple implementation could use optic flow analysis to see the shifts in the scene. So if you shift you hands it will appear - up/down=volume and left/right=pitch for example. Violently waving your hand (as you do in kinect) would allow the system to sense a high speed changing area. As the arm is a length.. it can then determine a joint from that... (hence you could get two hands working).
The setup that the kinect gets you todo is probably just that - looking for the changes in the movements so it can build up a skeleton based off the flow analysis. Once it knows your relative bone sizes then it could make it easier to be more selective of the movements.
More complex analysis of skeletal position (I believe the Xbox does this step) is probably in the works by some cunning linux boffins.. queue air finger pianos..
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